Truss



B. LLOID.

TRUSS.

APPLICATION FILED MAI1.3, Ism.

Patented May 4,1920.

:BENJAMIN LLOID, OF CORVALLIS, IDAHO.

TRUSS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

Application led March 3, 1919. Serial No. 280,439. l

To NU yrito/a it may concern.'

Be it known that l, BENJAMIN LLoin, a citizen of the United States, residing at Corvallis, in the county of Benton and State of Idaho, have invented 'certain new and useful Improvements in Trusses, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hernia or rupture truss, and an object of this invention is to provide a main body or carrying plate which carries the pad, and embodies in its construction, a metal plate to prevent warp- 'ing or distortion of the pad carrying plate during use.

Considerable inconvenience and often pain, is caused the wearer of a hernia or rupture truss when the pad carrying plate or body thereof becomes saturated with perspiration and consequently warps' out of its normal shape, distorting the pad structure and preventing it from properly litting the wearers body. It is an object ot this invention to provide a truss in which the pad body structure or section comprises a metal plate of suh'icient thickness to cause it to maintain its proper shape under movement of the body of the wearer and it also is covered with a covering of soft pliable leather to prevent it from abrading the body ot the wearer.

Other objects of the invention will appear in the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part ot this specification and in which drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the iin-- proved truss. Y

Fig. 2 is a side elevation ot' the pad and its carrying plate of the truss structure, and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section illustrat-` ing the manner ot connecting the pad to the supporting section and also the manner oi' connecting the belt to said plate.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 generically indicates the pad supporting plate which comprises a relatively rigid metal plate 2 shaped to it the body oli' the wearer, and preferably having its lower edge curved as shown at 3, to fit upwardly over the hip of the wearer so as to reduce to a minimum3 any irritation of the body of the wearer b v the said plate. The plate 2 has one end enlarged and provided with a centrally disposed opening which receives therethrough a screw 4 tor connect-- ing the pad 5 to the plate. The pad 5 is of the usual construction'A used in. hernia or rupture trusses, being substantially semispherical in shape and its flat surface engages against the .piece 6 lof soft leather which is in turn reinforced by a relatively thick plate which may be of metal or any desired material. The piece of leather 6 is adapted to engage the body or' the wearer, and prevent contracting ot.' vthe plate 2 and also the plate 7 with the wearers body. The edges ot' the leather preferably extend slightly beyond the edges of the metal plate 2 as clearly shown in Fig'. 1 of the drawing. A spacing washer 8 is mounted upon the screw /1 to properly space the plates 2 and The enlarged end of the plate 2 carries a pair of spaced pivots or pins 9 which are adapted for projection through the elongated openings 10 :formed in the buckles 11 and 12. The buckle 12 is connected to the end ot the adjusting strap 13 which is in turn connected by means of a buckle 14 to the elastic belt or body encircling band 15, of the truss. The elastic body encircling band l5 has its end opposite that end which carries the buckle 14 connected to the carrying plate 1 by a buckle of any approved construction, as shown at 16 so as to permit detachment oi" the body encircling belt from the carrying plate 1 when the former becomes worn out or whenever it is desired to disconnect the same. The buckle 11 is carried by the lower free end ot the leg strap 1'? which is connected to the body encircling band 15 as is ordinary in the construction of rupture or hernia trusses. The buckle 16 may be attached to the metal plate in any suitable manner.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be apparent that a hernia or rupture structure has been provided, in which the carrying plate 7 and the pad 5, will not becomedistorted, or warped out of shape, should the pad 5 and the leather sheet 6 become saturated with perspiration and consequently' inconveniences contingent with such distortion of the pad carrying plate will be eliminated.

Changes in details may be made without departing from the spirit of this invention; but i Y I claim:

1. In a hernia truss, a pad carrying plate structure comprising a metal plate shaped to ft the wearers body', a `relatively thin l metal plate at one side of said first metal plate, a sheet of soft leather carried by said relatively thin metal plate for engagement With the Wearers body, said plate structure having one end enlarged and provided with a central aperture, adapted to receive a) screw, a pad engaging the outer face of said sheet of soft leather and detachably connected to said metal plate, a buckle carried by the end of the plate remote from said Y enlarged end, a body encircling band connected to said buckle, a pair of pins carried by the enlarged end of said first named metal plate, a leg strap connected to said body encircling band, and buckles carried by the free ends of said body encircling band and said leg strap for engagement with said pins.

2. In a hernia truss, a pad carrying plate structure comprising a metal plate, a relatively thin metal plate at one side of said first metal plate, a sheet of soft leather carried by said relatively thin metal plate for engagement with the Wearers body, said plate structure having one end enlarged, a pad engaging the outer face of said sheet of soft leather and being detaehably connected to said metal plate, a body encircling band connected to said metal plate, a pair of pins carried by the enlarged end of said rst-named metal plate, a leg strap connected to said body encircling band, and buckles carried by the free ends of said body encircling band and said leg strap for engagement with said pins.

BENJAMIN LLOID. 

